Roland Philipps: Broken Archangel : The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement

UK 2025, 400 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Vintage
Celebrated reformer and proud nationalist, romantic radical and vilified traitor: this is the story of Roger Casement, one of the 20th century's most complex and compelling individuals. It was a life caught between fault lines. As a British ambassador, Casement exposed the horrors of the Belgian Congo, pioneering modern human rights. He fought passionately for Irish independence, even as each ... Weiterlesen

Jamie Pacton: The Absinthe Undergound

USA 2024, 286 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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Peachtree Publishing
For Sybil Clarion, the Belle Epoque city of Severon is a wild, romantic dream, filled with cafes, cabarets, and glittering nightclubs. Eager to embrace the city's freedom after running away from home, she's traded high-society soirees for empty pockets and barren cabinets. At least she has Esme, the girl who offered Sybil a home, and maybe - if either of ... Weiterlesen

Matthias Luthardt (R): Luise

D/F 2023, dt. OF, engl., dt. UT, 95 min., € 19.99
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Salzgeber
Oktober 1918 im Elsass, kurz vor Ende des ersten Weltkriegs. Die fromme Bäuerin Luise lebt alleine auf einem abgeschiedenen Bauernhof in der Nähe der französischen Grenze. Eines Morgens steht Hélène in ihrer Küche, eine junge Französin auf der Flucht vor einem deutschen Soldaten. Kurz darauf erscheint auch Hélènes verletzter Verfolger Hermann, der selbst wie ein Getriebener scheint. Luise versorgt die ... Weiterlesen

Aleksandar Hemon: The World and All That It Holds

UK 2023, 336 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Picador
As the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the counter at the pharmacy he inherited from his estimable father. It's not quite the life he had expected during his poetry-filled student days in libertine Vienna, but it's nothing a dash of laudanum from the high ... Weiterlesen

Alice Winn: In Memoriam

UK 2023, 380 pp., hardbound, € 19.95
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Viking
It's 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. News of the heroic deaths of their friends only makes ... Weiterlesen

Tom Crewe: The New Life

UK 2023, 400 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage
London, 1894. After a lifetime spent navigating his desires, John Addington, married to Catherine, has met Frank, a working-class printer. Meanwhile Henry Ellis's wife Edith has fallen in love with Angelica - and Angelica wants Edith all to herself. When in 1894 John and Henry decide to write a revolutionary book together, intended to challenge convention and the law, they ... Weiterlesen

Nat Reeve: Nettleblack

UK 2022, 420 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Cipher
The year is 1893. Having run away from her family home to escape an arranged marriage, Welsh heiress Henry Nettleblack finds herself ambushed, robbed, and then saved by the mysterious Dallyangle Division - part detective agency, part neighbourhood watch. Desperate to hide from her older sisters, Henry disguises herself and enlists. But the Division soon finds itself under siege from ... Weiterlesen

Sally Wainwright (R): Gentleman Jack Series 2

UK 2022, engl. OF, engl. UT, 3 DVDs, 464 min., € 34.99
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BBC - Gentleman Jack 2
All eight episodes from the second series of the BBC period drama starring Suranne Jones as landowner Anne Lister. Based on her own diaries, the show follows Lister as she returns to Halifax, West Yorkshire in 1832 to find her ancestral home at Shibden Hall has fallen into a state of disrepair. In an effort to improve its fortunes, Anne ... Weiterlesen

Marie Kreuzer (R): Corsage

Ö/LU/D/F 2022, dt. OF, dt. UT, 106 min., € 17.99
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Alamode
Weihnachten 1877: Es ist der 40. Geburtstag von Kaiserin Elisabeth von Österreich. In ihrer Rolle als Repräsentantin an der Seite ihres Mannes Kaiser Franz Joseph darf sie keine Meinungen äußern, sondern muss für immer die schöne junge Kaiserin bleiben. Um dieser Erwartung zu entsprechen, hält sie an einem rigiden Plan aus Hungern, Sport, Frisieren und täglichen Messungen der Taille fest. ... Weiterlesen

Olga Petri: Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg

UK 2022, 254 pp., hardbound, € 79.95
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Cornell University Press
»Places of Tenderness and Heat« is a ground-level exploration of queer St. Petersburg at the fin-de-siècle. Olga Petri takes us through busy shopping arcades, bathhouses, and public urinals to show how queer men routinely met and socialized. She reconstructs the milieu that enabled them to navigate a city full of risk and opportunity. Focusing on a non-Western, unexplored, and fragile ... Weiterlesen

Anna North: Outlawed

UK 2022, 263 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Weidenfeld and Nicolson
On the day of her wedding-dance, Ada feels lucky. She loves her broad-shouldered, bashful husband and her job as an apprentice midwife. But her luck will not last. It is every woman's duty to have a child, to replace those that were lost in the Great Flu. And after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where ... Weiterlesen

Nathan Harris: The Sweetness of Water

USA 2021, 368 pp.,brochure, € 14.95
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Headline
In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry - freed by the Emancipation Proclamation - seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. ... Weiterlesen

William Keeling: Belle Nash and the Bath Souffle

UK 2022, 288 pp.,brochure, € 19.95
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Envelope Books - The Gay Street Chronicles 1
When Gaia Champion's souffle fails to rise in 1830s Bath, it sets off a chain of events that overthrows the settled order. Centred on the personality of local councillor and gay bachelor extraordinaire Bellerophon »Belle« Nash, this first volume of »The Gay Street Chronicles« engages with social issues that were emerging in the early days of Queen Victoria's reign and ... Weiterlesen

Robert Jones, jr.: The Prophets

UK 2022, 388 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Quercus
A novel about the forbidden gay union between two enslaved young black men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence. Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it was to be until the end. In the ... Weiterlesen

Jen Manion: Female Husbands

UK 2021, 320 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Cambridge University Press
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War, Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories ... Weiterlesen

Anita Kurimay: Queer Budapest

USA 2020, 336 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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University of Chicago Press
By the dawn of the 20th century, Budapest was a burgeoning cosmopolitan metropolis. Known at the time as the »Pearl of the Danube,« it boasted some of Europe's most innovative architectural and cultural achievements, and its growing middle class was committed to advancing the city's liberal politics and making it an intellectual and commercial crossroads between East and West. In ... Weiterlesen

E.M. Forster: Maurice

UK 2005, 232 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK
Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, whom he encounters at Cambridge, and through Alec, the gamekeeper on Clive's country estate, Maurice gradually experiences a profound emotional and sexual ... Weiterlesen
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Christopher Chitty: Sexual Hegemony

Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System. USA 2020, 222 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Duke University Press
In »Sexual Hegemony«, Christopher Chitty traces the 500 year history of capitalist sexual relations by excavating the class dynamics of the bourgeoisie's attempts to regulate homosexuality. Tracking the politicization of male homosexuality in Renaissance Florence, Amsterdam, Paris, and London between the 17th and 19th centuries, and 20th-century New York City, Chitty shows how sexuality became a crucial dimension of the ... Weiterlesen